As departing chancellor Angela Merkel will receive a military farewell ceremony (tattoo). By tradition, the outgoing leader can also request some pieces of music to be played by the milititary band. She chose a song by Punk icon Nina Hagen: “Du hast den Farbfilm vergessen”

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  1. I really applaud her choice. It conveys a lot of political subtext.

    Remark: I am bit unhappy with the source I linked in the post. There are only two of them in English (yet) and the (in this case) better one is unluckily not from a reputeable source.

    If you want to listen to that song: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKe9ybFDQ1A](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKe9ybFDQ1A)

    Wikipedia entry: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du_hast_den_Farbfilm_vergessen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du_hast_den_Farbfilm_vergessen)

    I am a bit unsure about the word tattoo. Though it is technically the correct one, most will completely misread the message :-(. But other terms like “last post” or “taps” have similar problems.

  5. She is an interesting person, with a real personality.

    subtext, from a foreigner guessing, maybe punk groups as resistance in church basements on former eastern germany? That was such an interesting alliance.

  9. Here is an old clip from a talk show where nina met Merkel (who was arguing for decriminalization of soft drugs) and shouted / exploded against everybody because they didn’t want to pay for therapy of Heroin addicts

    https://youtu.be/Y6cp-VtLAl4

    The mentioned “new and expensive therapy” was neural electrical stimulation, something that still isn’t scientifically prove as of today.

  10. >”Du hast den Farbfilm vergessen”

    I am firmly convinced this is a hint she was a Russian spy all along. Just a smarter and less obvious one than Gerhard Schröder.

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